Sochi Day 9: Ladies 1500m
Marathon skater Jorrit Bergsma presents a challenge to Sven’s supremacy. Recap Exciting as always, the Olympics continues to throw surprises at us, thick and fast. Olga [more...]
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Sochi Day 8: Mens 1500m
Jorien Ter Mors of the Netherlands leads Arianna Fontana of Italy at the European championships for short track. Recap After an uneventful, but controversial day off (which [more...]
Sochi Day 6: Ladies 1000m
Bart Swings, a current world champion in inline skating is looking to add an Olympic medal to his collection. Recap The olympics continues to surprise and in that sense, [more...]
Sochi Day 5: Mens 1000m
Oakley sunglasses – a nutritious diet loved by speed skaters the world over. Recap Could anyone have possibly predicted the result? Well… no. Not at all. The [more...]
Sochi Day 4: Ladies 500m
Shani Davis from the USA will be going for his third consecutive victory in the 1000m Recap As was expected, a few surprises. Zhang from China posting a fantastic time from [more...]
Sochi Day 3: Mens 500m
it has always astounded me just how much hair a person can fit under those hoods… Recap Heartbreaking, agonising, saddening, Daniel Greig caught the tip of his blade in [more...]
Sochi Day 2: Ladies 3000m
Yo, what up? Recap It’s like I always say – anything can happen. The night’s racing delivered an edge-of-your-seat battle right down to the wire, with the [more...]
Sochi Day 1: Mens 5000m
Recap So that went mostly as expected. Sven got pretty much the exact time I said he would by skating pretty much the exact splits that I said he would. I’m pretty sure [more...]
Privet Sochi!
With the opening ceremony literally hours away, hopefully I can get this article out before everyone starts watching (and stops reading). Judging from the feedback from the [more...]
It’s all about light
Recently I purchased as a gift one of those mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras (the Fujifilm X-M1 with 27mm lens, if you must know). The receiver of this gift, being [more...]
The Thing You’ve Never Done
Berlin just after the stroke of midnight So it’s taken me nearly two thirds of January to get around to writing this. There is a tradition around this time of year to [more...]
Parting Shots
Not to sound too cliché, but “think of the children!” Yesterday was the final day of negotiations. The text was adopted, but it was very weak. The opportunity to [more...]
Dress to Impress, Live by Example
UN summits are funny things. One of the more unusual things I noticed is the way people are dressed. Rio de Janiero at this time of the year is often in the mid-twenties and [more...]
Post Trauma
Worldwatch President Bob Engelman holds up a copy of our latest publication It’s taken a little while to fully decompress, but we seem to have all recovered well from [more...]